Emma Roberts attends the Salvatore Ferragamo Women’s Resort 2012 Collection show in NYC in a Salvatore Ferragamo dress, of course.

Salvatore Ferragamo Fall 2011 Collection/Model: Isabeli Fontana

Salvatore Ferragamo Fall 2011 Collection [not exact match]

Or, y’know, not. We want to believe a Roberts family member can appear on a red carpet this week looking good, but so far, the results are not promising. Kudos to her for going a little more demur on the keyhole, because we doubt she could have pulled off the runway version. Aside from that, there’s little here to get excited about. That dress is way too shiny and doesn’t look all that season-appropriate. This isn’t a look that says “June” no matter where you are. The shoes are kinda fab, although we’re not sure they really go with that dress. Other than that, there’s not a lot here to get excited about. Julia? You’re up again.

It’s not a bad dress…but it’s totally not for June/summer! It’s more of a holiday look imo. Only for that…she’s OUT!

At first look I thought the model had a tan scarf or tie on and wasn’t until I read the TLo comment that I realized it was a keyhole…exposed chest. wow. JLo will be sporting this dress soon enough, I’m sure… 😉

It looks like she used self tanner on her legs and her knees turned orange. I think she should have gone for professional airbrushing if she wanted tan legs. Surely she can afford it. Plus, it’s so “Hollywood”

Amie Curie

Out. Boring.

Courtney Hellams

out! she looks awful

Anonymous

it’s way too “bridesmaid at a winter wedding” for this time of year and if anyone is looking for an example as to when sheer black hose would be a necessity??…here you go….

Anonymous

Emma, honey, crossing your knees like that makes it seem like you have to pee. It is neither demure nor sexy. Please stop.

Meh. Maybe if she had done more with hair and makeup she could have made this work. I’m kinda tired of the “just tossed on a dress and shoes” look. OUT.

Anonymous

Out. That color looks strange on her and definitely does not suit her coloring. Also it makes her hair and make up look ickier than they already are. The shoes do not belong with that dress AND she took away their best feature—the pin striping. Make it go away now.

Anonymous

Way too shiny and I hate the skirt hem that looks like you are going to pull back the curtains to show off your ladybits.

Out, but I think she just needs more/better help. Someone to remind her to fix the shinies periodically and that it’s not what the hair looks like when you turn away from the mirror that matters, but what it looks like 30 – 90 -120 minutes later. Ya know, if you’re going to be photographed a lot it takes a lot more minute-to-minute maintenance to look your best. (Based on what she has looked like in the past with her hair put up loosely and/or with bangs, I think she should try a short haircut. I think she’d look adorable.)

The dress is o.k. but neither seasonal nor does it impress. Every dress does not need to make the viewer’s tongue hang out in lust, but if it’s not figure flattering it ought to be interestingly constructed or beautiful.

I love and adore the shoes in the pin-striped version.

Grace Ritt

I don’t think there’s anything special here. Oh look, a dress with a hole in the chest, and studded shoes! WOW! Other than that, she looks kind of plain, even though she looks good. I’ll say IN even though it’s not very amazing.

OUT. Ugh, the blouse looks too big and her little legs look so sad and scrawny….All I could think of was concentration camp survivors.

Anonymous

it’s a strange sad day when you compare the runway model’s legs to the pseudo-starlet’s legs, and think the runway model’s legs look robust and healthy, almost chubby. Whether it’s the angle, the pose, or anatomy, Emma here has some bony, pointy knees. weapons of death. yow.

Holy bony kneecaps, Batman! Give that girl a sandwich and some kneepads before she hurts someone with those things.

Anonymous

Also!

I’m glad I don’t have to see her starving ribcage, but that dress is all wrong in so many ways.

Also, also!

While the shoes look cute in the ad pic, the ones on Emma have something weird going on at the toe which makes them look like they’re magic genie shoes that are in the process of uncurling, kinda like a New Year’s party favor.

I keep forgetting to say IN or OUT. So I’m saying it….OUT!

Joyce VG

IN because I like the color and it was nightime (?) so a dark color is maybe ok (?).

Anonymous

This poor girl. This dress ages her. The interesting piece about the dress was the dramatic keyhole, and that’s missing here. As it should be, for her. So…this is not her dress. The shoes are great, in the pinstripe version, and neither version go with this dress. And the poor girls legs…she should have some muscle tone. I mean, I get that she wants to be Hollywood-skinny, but your legs should not evoke newborn horse. How is she even able to walk?

Out.

Vaniljekjeks

Out, but close. The shoes and dress really don’t go with each other, and the whole thing is too shiny.

Anonymous

Out! Not only is the color too heavy for June, it’s too heavy for her.

I’m inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt because the lighting was no flattering to the dress or her.

Anonymous

that fabric looks like you would sweat your ass off in it. i do love the shoes by themselves. OUT

Anonymous

that fabric looks like you would sweat your ass off in it. i do love the shoes by themselves. OUT

MilaXX

OUT. I like the color, but the dress seems better suited for Fall/Winter. I’m all for those who embrace their pale skin instead of going orange, but this just emphasizes her pale skin in a bad way. The shoes, while killer simply do not go with the outfit.

Anonymous

Out. Maybe in November, with some hose and probably different shoes.

Anonymous

NO! NO! NO! Seriously, I live in Texas and it’s 100 degrees here. This outfit is giving me a heat stroke. Also.. honey, you need to work on those legs.

Lies L.

OUT. I like the hair and makeup and I could live with the shoes, but that dress is just awful.

OUT! Like others have said, it would be more acceptable if we were in November. Imagining wearing it in the heat of June/July gives me hives!

Anonymous

Out. The closing of the keyhole–while the right decision if she had to wear this dress–threw the whole dress off, and as she’s wearing it, it looks home-altered. Possibly with a couple of ill-placed safety pins. Plus the pose is even more “Where’s the ladies’ room… PLEASE?!” than most.

(And is it me, or do those sleeves look too long on both her and the model? They look like they’ve been scrunched up over the wrists. Why do so many designers make things with gorilla sleeves?)

After careful and thoughful consideration, I must say this OUTfit is OUT. Too shiny, it just looks cheap.

Anonymous

Shiny purple velvet? No. Never.

Anonymous

I like that colour on her and its a pretty dress, but those shoes are so wrong for it. I can’t deside if i like it enough to in her… oh, the hell with it, she is still very young. She doesn’t has a sense of her own style yet so she has some excuse…
i’m gona in her, but barelly.

UGH. Why is she constantly dressing like she’s 15 years older than she actually is? OUT.

Anonymous

OUT!
It looks like dress you would wear for Christmas. Keeping with the Christmas in almost July theme … her oddly posed knobby knees makes her like the female version of Tiny Tim in need of leg surgery.

OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT. And why is she so ugly? Because naturally she’s very average/pretty, but it’s like she supremely pissed off her hair and makeup people. They no likey her.

Anonymous

IS it just me or does that dress look cheap and poorly made? Which it clearly isn’t. At least not cheap….

Anonymous

She looks like a little girl who got carried away playing “dress up” and took the scissors to her mother’s office Christmas party dress. She’s just too young/skinny for a dress that heavy and aging. That wasn’t even a pretty dress to start with. OUT.

Yeah a purple velvet long sleeve dress in (almost) July? I don’t think so.
I don’t like the shoes either.
Out.

Anonymous

OUT to the oh you tee. I have some kind of irrational hatred for the shoes, and the dress looks like she’s ready for a ski vacation. (I doublechecked to make sure she wasn’t in Australia or Peru or somewhere where it’s winter right now).

Anonymous

Evidently a new memo is making the rounds of Hollywood stylists. No more posing like you need to pee. The In Thing is now to straighten one knee, dislocate the other knee, lean away from the straight knee, and Voila! The Emma Roberts/Dondria Nicole Fields pose. Check it out–BET awards post, June 27.

Can somebody come up with a catchy name for this? I guarantee, you won’t see Cathy Cambridge doing this redic pose.

I like the dress on her, the color suits her and she wears it quite well. The shoes made me want to pick my eyeballs out with a pair of tweezers. Just saying.

Anonymous

she’s posing like she has to pee

Anonymous

That outfit would look good on a fit, chic 65 year old NYC matron attending the Met. In fact, I think that’s where I last saw it. So I’m just going to squint and imagine Emma’s head as my Aunt Mae and then this becomes a total WERQ (with a longer skirt and hose, of course).

I fear this will amount to an OUT, but I do give her points for trying. Having that huge keyhole would have been an automatic OUT, so she was smart to close it up. There is nothing she can do about her knees, so I would not attack her for that. With the expectation that she will be OUT, I will vote IN for some fairly smart choices, even if this is not the most exciting look ever.

The fabric is way too heavy for June. The shoes are FIERCE and the color of the dress is fantastic – but that’s about it. She looks exhausted, sallow, and shiny. And as far as hair goes – mostly inoffensive, but she needs a decent color job. Sorry, sweetie. OUT.

The fabric is way too heavy for June. The shoes are FIERCE and the color of the dress is fantastic – but that’s about it. She looks exhausted, sallow, and shiny. And as far as hair goes – mostly inoffensive, but she needs a decent color job. Sorry, sweetie. OUT.

margaret meyers

I always feel sorry for her. She always seems to be forcing herself into the round hole, in fashion and her career.

margaret meyers

I always feel sorry for her. She always seems to be forcing herself into the round hole, in fashion and her career.

Yech. That dress probably costs more than anything I own but it looks so cheap. Those shoes were a bad choice too.

Anonymous

OUT.

Anonymous

Yeah… out. Her LEGS oh my GOD what is WRONG with this girl’s LEGS?? The damn MODEL has more legs than her! The poor fucking thing.

sonictofu

God that top looks like it was made from a 1992 prom dress from DEB. Remember that place? OUT

Anonymous

OUT. KNOBBY knees – shiny face – just no and the dress is heinous on her.

Shawn Hill

Agreed. She looks more sickly here than she did in Scream 4, where she was being stabbed and shot at!

Anonymous

what’s wrong with her knees is that SHE IS EMACIATED.

Anonymous

I also think she made the right choice with her alterations to the runway version, but I think she should have stayed with the blue. The purple is too holiday (X-mas) party, and the shiny fabric is just not right. OUT.

Yep. Not a June dress. And without that keyhole, it becomes frumpy. OUT.

Anonymous

OUT!

Anonymous

If she had worn this to an event in the late fall or early winter months I’d be impressed – if she paired different shoes with it. And please, please put some stockings on – they’ll even out your skin tone and add a bit of polish!